The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare (DF/PCC) proposes to use its membership in the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) to support participation in therapeutic research and other clinical trials, both in the Institute and its affiliate institutions. The goals of this project will be the initiation and participation in Phase I, II and III cooperative clinical trials involving chemotherapy, surgery and radiation therapy. A major emphasis will be made in developing new therapeutic strategies both at the DFCI and MGH, and in pilot collaborative investigations with interested members of CALGB. Dana-Farber investigators would continue to be actively involved in disease and modality committees of the CALGB. This project is designed to bring cooperative group trials to regional community hospitals affiliated through the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute throughout New England and to Puerto Rico through its affiliation with the University of Puerto Rico Oncology program. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has a broad program of Phase I trials of new treatments including biologics. The extensive involvement of members of the faculty of Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care in CALGB facilitates the transmission of Phase I observations and ideas into broader Phase II or even Phase III trials. To that end our investigators have assumed leadership roles in the modality/disease committees of CALGB (GI, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Breast, GU, Correlative Sciences, Melanoma, Clinical Economics for example). Our objectives on this grant is to increase accrual through our expanded network, which now includes Hartford Hospital (with 900 beds), and to increase interests of young investigators at DF/PCC in participation in CALGB at the administrative and scientific levels. The basic scientific efforts of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center will be, where possible, brought to the correlative science program of CALGB.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Cooperative Clinical Research--Cooperative Agreements (U10)
Project #
5U10CA032291-23
Application #
6756026
Study Section
Subcommittee G - Education (NCI)
Program Officer
Mooney, Margaret M
Project Start
1982-04-01
Project End
2009-03-31
Budget Start
2004-04-16
Budget End
2005-03-31
Support Year
23
Fiscal Year
2004
Total Cost
$411,171
Indirect Cost
Name
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
076580745
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02215
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Kimmick, Gretchen G; Major, Brittny; Clapp, Jonathan et al. (2017) Using ePrognosis to estimate 2-year all-cause mortality in older women with breast cancer: Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 49907 and 369901 (Alliance A151503). Breast Cancer Res Treat 163:391-398
Holstein, Sarah A; Jung, Sin-Ho; Richardson, Paul G et al. (2017) Updated analysis of CALGB (Alliance) 100104 assessing lenalidomide versus placebo maintenance after single autologous stem-cell transplantation for multiple myeloma: a randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. Lancet Haematol 4:e431-e442
Basch, Ethan; Dueck, Amylou C; Rogak, Lauren J et al. (2017) Feasibility Assessment of Patient Reporting of Symptomatic Adverse Events in Multicenter Cancer Clinical Trials. JAMA Oncol 3:1043-1050

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